Clicking on the ‘Add this form to my post’ button will insert the shortcode for the form into your post. If you forgot something you can either edit the shortcode by hand, or simply click the ‘Add custom form’ button again and the form builder will re-load the form details and allow you to change them.

Now if we had stopped there, this would still be a great upgrade, but we decided to turn the volume up to 11.

In addition to emailing out the form results, they are now also stored in the WordPress database. You’ll notice a new menu item called ‘Feedbacks’, just below ‘Comments’:

Feedbacks

The feedback management is patterned after the style of comment management. Form submissions that Akismet marks as spam are under the ‘Spam’ section. If for some reason Akismet made a mistake you can click the ‘Not Spam’ action and the details will be sent back to Akismet so that it can learn from the mistake. And because you indicated that it wasn’t spam after all, the form results are emailed out again. You can delete, restore, and permanently delete each entry as well.

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It works great if I try to add a new contact form on a brand-new page but I’m having trouble editing an existing default contact form. I sent a message to support, but I’m wondering if anyone else has that problem too.

I think you hit a bug that was discovered just after it was launched. I’ve already made a fix for it, so give it a try again. If it still isn’t working correctly please contact support and we’ll help track it down.

I tried to add it to an existing post . The shortcode appeared but the rest of the post in the editor and preview had evaporated so I aborted . I’m probably misunderstanding how to do it but will the post disappear if I click update ?

Possible bug: I sent a test email, and it never came. It turned out that my own email was determined to be “Spam” and was never sent. I noticed it when I checked the “Feedback Page”. I was logged into my account, and used the same email that all my WordPress email goes to. X

I’d been hoping for an improved contact form with just these sort of changes. This is like an early Christmas present. I’ve been able to remove my own email address from public visibility (and therefore lowered the potential to be spammed on an email address I prefer to keep clear of distractions), while retaining the ability for interested readers to contact me directly and in confidence about specific matters. This is a change I’ve wanted to be able to make since starting my blog.

Heya,
I am using Fjords04 @ http://sannekurz.com.
I love the contacts form – easy and intuitive to use as usually. thanks!
My PROBLEM however:
in my theme the e-mail and website boxes are not adjusting their width automatically to my column width – any idea how to fix this?
Message box is fine.
Thx!
Sanne.

Very nice note that you are always improve our interface and tools… I have some suggestions and claims… Sorry my English…

1 – From Painel I’m not able to see all text of a comment in order to answer. A bottom to expand all text will be very practical.

2 – Another day I try insert an image (from a URL that was tested from my browser) on a comment (an answer) on panel, it not worked, without any error message.

3 – I strongly suggest that you developed form tools to readers vote from a post… Something that I can setup to make a kind of pool in a specific post, something that readers can vote clinking on a button (yes/no), for instance, without need make any comment. The results must appear automatically… I know that it must send a cookie to reader to prevent more than one vote for each one… but it will be a great possibility to explore.

This is just what I needed for my posts. However, when I tried incorporating it into my existing post the article was erased and what remained was just the new contact form! Is this possible only in new posts henceforth? Thanks for your help.

Thanks wordpress for the great post. An awesome contact form like this has always been the requirement. Now we got it and we’ll adopt it. We believe wordpress is not just a wordpress but it’s a king wordpress.
Saif

Great new tool
At first, the just-written article disappeared, like some other bloggers above have experienced as well, after adding the contact form.
For sure, there must be a better solution than mine, but for the moment, it works: add the contact form first, then put a dividing line above, and on top of it, the article itself. Wonder why, but both will stay and work.

Thanks for this. Can’t wait to use it. But it seems that since you released this the standard ‘leave a comment’ form at the end of my posts has gone funny. The fields don’t appear aligned in Firefox 3.6.13. I’m using the ‘contempt’ theme. I wonder if this is related? The form appears fine in Opera.

Thanks for adding this feature!! I have now got a feedback tab on my blog so readers can give me feedback easily. Being able to choose which fields are required, I can let someone leave feedback while keeping their privacy, or they can add their email address and website. Plus I can choose how they give feedback – whether with drop-down boxes, text fields and more.